Improvement in game-counters



A. D. HOFFMAN.

GAME-COUNTER.

No.180,Z35 Patented July 25,1876.

N.PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, [1C4 UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

AUSTIN D. HOFFMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD HIS RIGHT TO SAMUEL A. ROSS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAME-COUNTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,235, dated J uly 25, 1876; application filed December 8, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUSTIN D. HOFFMAN,

ofOhieago, in the county of Cook and State ot' Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Game-Counters, of which the following is a specification:

The present invention consists of a disk and stand provided with a plunger, which is pushed down to turn a hand moving on the disk, to indicate from 1 to l0, or more.

The lower end of the plunger is provided with an arm, which passes down on one side of a cam, and up on the other side of it; and by means oi' this cam it is caused to swing far enough on the line of a circle at each movement to catch onto another cog on a toothed eollar, carrying a hand on the collar from one figure to another on the disk.

The plunger-is inclosed in the sleeve attached to the disk, and is made to have an upward movement by a coil-spring surrounding it.

The cam is pivoted'to a bridge, which allows it to oseillate in a horizontal plane, and it is held in position to operate by a spring and an arm attached to the bridge, and having bearings on the inside ofthe stand.

The arm on the plunger is held in place by a guide projecting down from the under side of the disk.

In the drawings, Figure l is a central sectional elevation of my improvement 0n line Z, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is an inverted view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the toothed col- A lar removed from the other part.

A represents a metal disk, terminating in the stand B, and provided on its upper side With `figures, l 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0, at equal distances apart, their positions being shown at G. More or less figures may be made on the disk, providing the collar L is made of such size as to have a corresponding number of cogs. A sleeve, E, projects up from the disk A, and inside thereof is placed a plunger, C, surrounded by a coil-spring, D. The lower end of the plunger is provided With an arm, S, which moves a cam, J, by passing down one side of it, the coil-spring I) bringing the arm back on the other side of it. The arm, in its upward movement, engages a cog on the toothed collar L, and by its horizontal movement, caused by the coil-spring D,moves the collar round far enough to bring the hand F from one figure to another on the disk, as will be seen at Figs. l and 3. This collar is placed in a recess in the disk A, and under a supporting-cap, H, fastened to the sleeve Iil. The cam J' has an inclined position relative to the under side of the disk, so that the arm S Will readily swing it to one side, and it is pivoted to a bridge, K, and is kept in position by a spring, N, on one side, and an arm, I, on the other, both being attached to the bridge.

' I claim as new, and desire to seeure by Letters Patent ofthe United States- The cam J', in combination with the arm S, plunger O, toothed collar L, provided with the arm F, sleeve E, springs D and N, and arm I, arran ged with reference to the numbered disk A, as specified.

AUSTIN D. HOFFMAN.

Witnesses:

O. H. ADIX, G. L. CHAPIN. 

